Anjuta (in the anjuta package) and GNOME Builder (in the gnome-builder package) are Integrated Development Environments (IDE) optimized for creating GTK+ applications for GNOME. Glade (in the glade package) is an application designed to create GTK+ graphical interfaces for GNOME and save them in an XML file. These XML files can then be loaded by the GTK+ shared library through its GtkBuilder component to recreate the saved interfaces; such a feature can be interesting, for instance for plugins that require dialogs.

The equivalent applications for Qt are KDevelop by KDE (in the kdevelop package) for the development environment, and Qt Designer (in the qttools5-dev-tools package) for the design of graphical interfaces for Qt applications.

KDevelop er også en generisk IDE og gir programtillegg for andre språk som Python og PHP og forskjellige byggesystemer.